Salt-Fish Dinner

Ingredients

• two pounds of salt codfish
• melted butter
• pork-scraps
• boiled potatoes
• boiled beets
• boiled parsnips

Method

1. 1

   Soak salt codfish overnight in cold water.

2. 2

   The next morning, wash and place in a kettle with fresh cold water.

3. 3

   Heat gently until just before dinner, then boil for five minutes.

4. 4

   Drain and serve with melted butter or pork scraps, along with boiled potatoes and beets.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 125. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SALT-FISH DINNER. Soak two pounds of salt codfish over night, in cold water, putting the fish into the water with the skin uppermost. The next morning wash the fish, and put it into a large kettle with plenty of fresh cold water ; set the kettle on the back of the stove, where the water will keep hot without boiling, and let the fish scald until just before dinner-time ; then boil it gently for five minutes, drain it, and serve it with melted butter made as described below, or with pork-scraps. Boiled potatoes and boiled beets are sometimes served with the salt fish, and in the season a dish of boiled parsnips

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